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[nickstony]

Hello to all, new to CA today.

I feel the Paypal donation is a viable start.

I will make my first LM visit this year. I will be asking for all help/tips I can get!

My first ? is how to best obtain any grandstand ticket (just one) as I did not get one online in time.

Thanks!

[rcutler]

Try the sell and swap section but you will have to be quick. BTW welcome to CA!

[Brian(Liverpool boys)]

Just like to say thanks to all at CA, for making this a first class site. We can't and we wont let it go to the wall. Glad to see with some relief that the immediate problems are solved, but need as a group to ensure that the future of this site stays safe and viable.
Good luck with your efforts smokster.
Brian.

[nickliv]

It'd be terrible if CA disappeared. I think the idea of a store selling downloads of the guide, baseball caps, lanyards / ticket holders, badges etc is a good one. The only problem is the fact that once you've got a CA cap etc. you might not want to get another.

Alternatively, a requirement to register in order to post in the buy / sell / swap forum. (The Skoda forum I visit has a membership requirement like this, and I think it works well)

Or we buy up loads of tickets, and hawk them on ebay for a fortune. (Not sure about this one)

I know that these have been suggested before, but just thought I should add my vote.

[knetter]

Like Paddy said,

We will open a topic for everyone of us who wants to donate to the cause of keeping CA up and running. There must be at least 10 of us who post here on a semi regular basis.

All procedes of the fundraiser on our party however will go to Doris' charity, like last year!

[Piglet]

Blimey, this has flushed out the lurkers hasn't it - well done! 

As KK has said we'll happily pay up - we've made some great friends through this site and life would be much poorer without it.

KK will happily donate pictures for a calender and this could be run through photobox with no admin costs to the site.  The slight problem would be the ACO copyright issue that I'm sure will cause DD some concern. 

As many of you know I'm involved with MotorsportvisionRacing - I'll see if I can swing some tickets to some events - not sure about the best way to deal with them - ebay auction linked from a thread? 

I feel quite shallow saying the next bit...but I like "our" site as it is, I'd hate it to become Pistonheads or similar, I like it the way it is and I'd be more than happy to pay to keep it this way. 

Cheers Dave and co for the site - we don't say thanks often enough but life would be different without it (I might get more done at home though!)   

[Pieter]

Of course I'll join in with helping CA. I will do that through the joint DfH fund.

[MIKE C (Liverpool Boys)]

Just like to say thanks to all at CA, for making this a first class site. We can't and we wont let it go to the wall. Glad to see with some relief that the immediate problems are solved, but need as a group to ensure that the future of this site stays safe and viable.
Good luck with your efforts smokster.
Brian.

I will help to keep the site going.
Mike

[Papa Lazarou]

Blimey, you don't check the site for a couple of days and look what happens!

Get the PP account working, and a donation will be with you...

Without this site I wouldn't have such a strange assortment (according to swmbo))of t-shirts.  Long may it expand!

Patrick.

[smokie]

Thanks to all for your support.

I have now set up a PayPal account (club_arnage@ntlworld.com) and would be delighted to start receiving donations. Dave has sent me the hosting invoice to be paid, I'd like to get that completed this week.

Can I request that, thanks to the over-subscription, in the first place people simply make donations. The loan idea was great as it got the ball rolling, but administering loans could be time consuming and would require a level of administrative support. If subscriptions in the next few days do not meet the necessary figure then, depending on the shortfall, I will contact those who indicated they would loan via email. I will post regualr updates on progress on this thread - but as usual I am off to Aberdeen on Tuesday when my access becomes more limited.

The donations will remain anonymous but I would be happy to provide a summary of income/expenditure to any subscibing member on request. I am thinking that we should set up a "committee" (which would exclude Steve, Dave D and myself) to approve expenditure and plan fund raising, and in particular ensure fair play. It's not necessary to post here to confirm you have paid, I will receive details directly from PayPal.

[termietermite]

Hopefully the funds are already rolling in.
Signed, anonymous.

[smokie]

They most certainly are... 

[smokie]

The PayPal account might not work right now.

I set up a PayPal ordinary account but got a warning that it could only accept two CC payments a year. So I upgraded to a Premier acocunt and it has now limited the account while I fulfill a set of inappropriate questions about "my business". It isn't a scam, but I will call them tomorrow first thing to sort it out.

ISTR the DfH lads having a similar problem...

[Christopher]

Just checked in and seen this.

As most have already said......we just cannot let CA go. Although my boss would probably disagree, as I seem to spend increasing amounts of time lurking and reading CA rather than doing what is fats becoming a mundane job. Oh well.

Happy to make a donation for the short term problem, as I see it is as fair for the amount of info and giggles you get from reading the various posts.

Is the pay pal up and running correctly now?

[mgmark]

Just logged on after a bysu weekend all over the place - surplus or not, let us know when the paypal account is sorted.

MG Mark